Sentences with phrase «western nations»

As Crusaders retook the Middle East and parts of Asia, they brought back area rugs and carpets, which sparked a fire of interest in the people of these Western nations.

Overall, the results suggest that people in South Africa engage in suicidal thought and behaviours at levels nearly comparable with those of Western nations.

Since one of the most common Muslim arguments is that Islamic morality and law would benefit Western nations, we also report relevant current events concerning the im Frequency about 2 posts per week.

Because this is a true technical profession, the baseline undergraduate professional qualification starts at Bachelor level in the US and most Western nations.

Smart speakers are just the main point of entry for voice AI in the U.S. and western nations.

I've suggested in the past here on Slaw and elsewhere that the ICESC could be amended to include an indexed living wage that could work to reduce some of the hardships that plague nations such such as Cambodia and as global conditions would have it — even the western nations economic and social conditions given what they currently are.

Government interference is much more prevalent than in Western nations.

In Western nations, the graduation numbers are more balanced.

With the exception of the US and Canada, every Democratic nation in the Americas has at some point in its history fallen into tyranny, as have many elsewhere throughout the world such as the Roman Republic all the way through more modern examples of western nations including Germany and France.

China had resolutely stuck with developing countries and the G77 in demanding more from Western nations and pushing back against requests for tougher climate action plans.

Whereas western nations» nuclear power capacities are static or declining, China's is accelerating rapidly and set to grow further.

According to high - ranking officials in Beijing, there is simply not enough fuel around on the planet to sustain a Chinese boom using the same energy - intensive recipe that made the western nations rich.

With renewables, natural gas and efficiency eating into coal consumption in many Western nations, coal producing regions have been hanging their hopes on ever increasing consumption in India and China.

The future world will use portland cements much more sparingly than Australian or other Western nations currently do.

So Gary's real beef is that many western nations elect silly progressive leaders.

As for the UN, they have moved so far from the noble ideals encapsulated in their founding charter, and have deserted their primary mission in a much more heinous manner than the body they replaced, that is past time for Western Nations to repudiate its role in international affairs, denounce their support of the UN, cancel all funding to the UN and see how long the last without the support of the West.

[In the 1990's, the progressives running many of the world's western nations embarked on a path to use the threat of dangerous anthropogenic climate change to centralize power in their governments by claiming the need to stabilize the concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases, which was codified by the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) treaty.]

«In the 1990's, the progressives running many of the world's western nations embarked on a path to use the threat of dangerous anthropogenic climate change to centralize power in their governments by claiming the need to stabilize the concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases»

That looks like a broad accusation that unspecified «progressive» leaders of unspecified western nations conspired / decided amongst themselves to use the CAGW threat to centralize power.

If life were a James Bond movie, the villain would be Chinese and he would hatch a diabolical plot to scare the western world into destroying its manufacturing base by making energy really expensive and to burden it with so many stupid regulations that 10s of millions of jobs would be exported to China where they would burn vast quantities of coal and produce so much CO2 that whatever western nations did it would never come close to reducing emissions at all.

In essence, the western nations - and in particular the US and Australia - are only paying lip service to equity in the agreements in any event.

The modern equivalent with regard to AGW is that, despite the claim that 95 % or more of climate scientists support the AGW establishment position, support for the position among the general public (of the western nations anyway) is only of the order of 50 % (14).

They rail on about the potential complicity of environmental NGOs in the death of millions through the opposition of these NGOs to support the use of chlorine - based pesticides, but they are completely silent on the economic and military policies of western nations (and that includes Europe as well) which are driving and maintaining poverty and which are killing thousands of people every day and whgich have probably killed many more people than malaria has done since the 1970s.

To support climate change mitigation activities in developing nations Western nations were asked to set at least US$ 200 billion (0.5 per cent from their GDP) by 2020, Africa's new common position paper revealed.

Freedom can only flourish in a capitalist framework — it is the key to all strands of western economic thought throughout the past 200 years — and to the economic success of western nations.

Western nations will not be powered by windmills and solar panels.

The green NGOs are running the show, having infiltrated the environmental bureacracy of most western nations.

It is hypocritical of Western nations to claim carbon reduction and blame China etc but we (the western nations) are probably overall the losers in terms of loss of industry / jobs and taxation

In the 70's, David Rockefeller extended his praise to communist dictator of China, Mao Zedong, in an article published in the New York Times, for his country's one - child policy, which will be the model for the Western nations to follow in the future — hence China's «Most Favored Nation» status granted by the UN.

It takes more than being an academic blowhard too or western nations with carbon taxes.

Western nations, driven by a global agenda of climate alarmism, are destroying their profitable industries with carbon taxes; and their promotion of expensive, intermittent green energy is pushing us back down the energy ladder; and our competitors in Asia are climbing the energy ladder as quickly as they can.

Sadly only the Western nations are behind the curve on helping to achieve this worthy goal.

The modern equivalent with regard to AGW is that, despite the claim that 95 % or more of climate scientists support the AGW establishment position, support for the position among the general public (of the western nations anyway) is only of the order of 50 %.

And the strength is fed by keeping the charade going, whisking the propaganda, beating the drum, laying more levies and taxes on Western Nations.

That means that western nations need to grow as fast as possible while freeing up trade to provide markets.

It is attempting to create a modern economy and a modern government in a fraction of the time it took wealthy Western nations to do the same.

3 / If you agree on point 1 and 2, given that Western nations have put most of the CO2 into the air, would it not be reasonable to support reducing CO2, support REDD etc — measures I have advanced under the term «solidarity agenda».

Western nations are currently highly dependent on petroleum supplies.

In what appears contradictory, Lomborg then advocates for investments in green energy technologies, ``... At the same time, wealthy Western nations must step up investments into research and development in green energy technologies to ensure that cleaner energy eventually becomes so cheap that everyone will want it.»

If China, India and other «developing nations» are exempted, then all bets are off except for — how long it will take for them to enslave the Western nations.

As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming.

As the United States and other Western nations withdraw from the competition to build new nuclear plants around the world, Russia is poised to increase its share of new nuclear builds from 38 percent to 57 percent by 2030.

Indeed, the map at which JAXA spokesman Sasano was pointing (see photo above) had been expected by most experts to show that western nations are to blame for substantial increases in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, causing global warming.

Hundreds of thousands of veterans are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, not only in the USA, but in dozens of western nations that belong to the NATO - ISAF coalition.

India, however, finds itself a «victim» of the effects of climate change that are caused largely by Western nations» industrialization long ago.

This is espcially directed at the developed and industrialized western nations and summarized by the Club of Rome (COR):

Is this to say developing nations shouldn't worry about CO2 emissions, and that western nations can not point their fingers at them and say «hey, why should we cut our CO2 emissions when they are building their THIRD coal plant?»

Since the end of the last ice age, Pacific Island atolls have survived 130 metres of sea - level rise, but global warming alarmists like Mark Kenny think that the last 1.43 mm / year since 1950 is going to sink them, therefore, compensation must be paid for by Western nations.

Since the end of the last ice age, The Marshall Islands have survived 130 metres of sea - level rise, but the last 1.43 mm / year since 1950 is going to sink them, therefore compensation must be paid for by Western nations!

Those countries will receive far less foreign aid from increasingly cash - strapped Western nations.